Alleged al Qaeda senior leader Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri made his first court appearance Wednesday, his first public appearance since he was captured in Dubai in 2002. Nashiri is charged with war crimes under the Military Commission Act of 2009 relating to the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 which killed 17 men, the bombing [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, argues that the Supreme Court should use US v. Jones as an opportunity to reaffirm Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, particularly in light of technological advances…
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases on preemption. In National Meat Association v. Harris , the court considered where the federal regime of slaughterhouse regulation as established by the Federal Meat Inspection Act (“FMIA”) , as amended by the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 and the Humane Methods of Slaughter [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for universal accession to the Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) . The comments came as part of the secretary’s message to the 13th Annual Conference on Protocol II. Congratulating the 97 States already party to Protocol [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Daniel Joyner of the University of Alabama School of Law says the IAEA went outside of its legal mandate with its latest report on Iran, a move that has been viewed by some states as indicating the IAEA’s shift from a technical body to a politicized one…
Sixteen Latin American, Caribbean and South American governments have filed supporting briefs in a lawsuit filed last week by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) challenging the South Carolina’s newly adopted immigration law . The briefs contend that the new law will “impede effective and consistent diplomatic relations,” and encourage “an imminent threat of state-sanctioned [...]
A trial court in the West Indian state of Gujarat on Wednesday convicted 31 people of crimes committed during the 2002 Gujarat riots. The guilty were convicted of murder, arson and rioting while charges criminal conspiracy were dropped by the court. All 31 of the convicted were sentenced to life in prison and required to [...]
The UN Joint Human Rights Office (UNJHRO) on Tuesday urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government to take appropriate actions to successfully abolish election-related violence before the upcoming presidential election on November 28. UNJHRO reported 188 cases of human rights violations related to the electoral process during the period between November 2010 and [...]
A Tunisian appellate court ruled Tuesday that a Libyan senior official who served under Muammar Gaddafi should be extradited back to Libya. Al-Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi , Gaddafi’s former prime minister, was ordered to be extradited following his conviction in September for illegally entering Tunisia. Mahmoudi’s lawyer, Mabrouk Kourchid, complained that the Tunisian court gave no [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday new charges may be warranted against those close to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi . According to Ocampo, an investigation into the use of rape by Gaddafi forces is nearly finished, and the results of this investigation may be used to file additional charges against [...]
